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US 10,843,840 B2Granted
Insulated box assembly with overlapping panels
AssigneePratt Retail Specialties, LLC
InventorsGreg Sollie, Jamie Waltermire, Shifeng Chen
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Abstract
A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising: folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines; folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels; inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece; and folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space.
Claims25
A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising:
- folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines;
- folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels, each of the plurality of side panels of the interior piece being separated from an adjacent side panel by a side panel cut, folding the interior piece from the flat configuration to the three-dimensional configuration comprising bending a fold line between the bottom panel and one of the side panels;
- inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece;
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- folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space.
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A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising:
- folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines, the upper portions of the exterior piece each comprising a connecting segment joined to the middle portion and an end segment joined to the connecting segment;
- folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels, the side panels each comprising a top interior portion;
- inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece;
- folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space;
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- folding the end segments into the cavity of the interior piece to cover the top interior portions of the side panels.
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A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising:
- folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines;
- folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels;
- inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece;
- filling the space with an insulator comprising filling the space with a side insulator pad and a bottom insulator pad;
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- folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space.
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A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising:
- folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines;
- folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels;
- inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece;
- filling the space with an insulator comprising:
- placing a front side insulator pad into the space, the front insulator pad extending from a left middle portion of the exterior piece to a right middle portion opposite to the left middle portion;
- placing a back side insulator pad into the space, the back side insulator pad opposite the front side insulator pad, the back side insulator pad extending from the left middle portion to the right middle portion;
- placing a left side insulator pad into the space, the left side insulator pad extending from an inner facing surface of the front side insulator pad to an inner facing surface of the back side insulator pad;
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- placing a right side insulator pad into the space, the right side insulator pad opposite the left side insulator pad, the right side insulator pad extending from the inner facing surface of the front side insulator pad to the inner facing surface of the back side insulator pad;
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- folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space.
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A method of assembling a box assembly, comprising:
- folding an exterior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the exterior piece comprising a plurality of middle portions and a plurality of upper portions joined to the middle portions by fold lines;
- folding an interior piece from a flat configuration to a three-dimensional configuration defining a cavity, the interior piece comprising a bottom panel and a plurality of side panels;
- inserting the interior piece into the exterior piece to define a space between the middle portions of the exterior piece and the side panels of the interior piece;
- folding the upper portions of the exterior piece to cover the space;
- covering the bottom panel of the interior piece with a center segment of an insert;
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- covering a first side panel of the interior piece with a rail joined to the center segment.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.